Word: franklins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play golf where I won't have to wear a sweater," was the reason announced by President-Reject Smith for his southern vacation, which began last week. He emphasized the fact that the South contained for him something besides Democratic politics, by declining to visit even Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his gubernatorial heir, who was resting, reviewing, retrenching at Warm Springs, Ga. The Smith Special proceeded, not without cheers, to Biloxi, Miss. There the Messrs. Smith, Raskob, Kenny, Riordan, et al., left off their sweaters and played, without further public palaver, golf...
...first portrait ever painted of Benjamin Franklin now hangs in the Bursar's office in Lehman Hall...
This painting has been in the possession of the University since 1856, when it was presented by Dr. J. C. Warren. The gift marked the one hundred and third anniversary of the conferring on Franklin of a Harvard master of arts degree. During the time the painting has been owned by the University it has hung in Memorial Hall, though it was removed some time ago to be given a thorough cleansing in the Fogg Museum. It has just been placed in Lehman Hall...
...execution of the portrait has been for a number of years open to discussion. It has been contested that the painting was drawn by an English artist, brought to this country by Franklin himself, and given to his brother. Others believe that it was painted at Newport, R. J., when Franklin was visiting his brother there, when Benjamin was about 30 years of age. It is now generally established, however, that the picture was executed by Robert Feke, the best of the pre-Copley artists in America, in Philadelphia in 1746, when Franklin was 40 years of age. It shows...
Because damp wheat makes musty flour, because damp wood makes warped boards, grain and lumber dealers asked Canada's National Bureau of Research for a quick, cheap way of measuring the moisture of their goods. The Bureau instructed Professor Eli Franklin Burton of Toronto University to work on it; he put one Arnold Pitt, his graduate student, at the task. Last week their invention was perfected...